PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HGGC, a leading middle market private equity firm, today announced that
it is expanding its team with six new hires across the financial,
operations and investment functions. These additions—all of which come
to HGGC from blue-chip financial and business brands—will help ensure
that HGGC has the talent and bandwidth to execute its successful
investment strategy and foster portfolio company value creation as it
continues its growth trajectory.

Colin Phinisey joins as a Principal responsible for leading
HGGC’s capital markets efforts across its portfolio. Phinisey is a
seasoned investment banking professional who has experience with a range
of capital markets transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers
and acquisitions, and debt financings across numerous industries.
Phinisey was most recently a Director in the Leveraged Finance Group at
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., where he worked for more than eight
years. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Phinisey spent four years as a Senior
Financial Analyst at Wachovia.

“Colin brings substantial capital markets experience that will help
further institutionalize best practices and lead our financing efforts
with Wall Street,” said Rich Lawson, HGGC CEO and Co-Founder. “In the
last year alone, we’ve been involved in $4.3 billion of financings, and
we expect 2019 to be an even bigger year for us.”

Christopher Guinn joins HGGC as an Executive Director who will
focus on working actively within HGGC’s portfolio. Prior to HGGC, Guinn
led acquisition integration for Golden Gate Capital portfolio company
Ply Gem Industries. Previously, Guinn held the Chief Financial Officer
role at Atrium Corporation and Neways International, both Golden Gate
Capital portfolio companies.

“Chris expands the roster of HGGC’s operational professionals that work
closely with portfolio companies to ensure growth and success with
operations, leadership and financials,” Lawson said. “Additionally,
we’re pleased to announce the addition of a talented new group of
associates in the busiest year yet for HGGC.”

Zachary Adams was previously an Associate at Boston Consulting
Group, where he focused on pricing and market studies in the industrial
and retail spaces. Prior to that, Adams was a Market Risk Analyst at
Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

William Spector was most recently a Corporate Finance Business
Analyst at leading management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where
he advised on strategic, financial, and operational issues for M&A,
corporate portfolio strategy, and finance transformations.

Patrick Malanga was previously an Investment Banking Analyst in
the Financial Sponsors Group at Credit Suisse, where he worked on
leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity
financings.

Hao Qin joins HGGC from Onex, one of Canada’s largest private
equity firms, where he was an Associate. Qin was previously an
Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs.

About HGGC

HGGC is a leading middle-market private equity firm with $4.3 billion in
cumulative capital commitments. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., HGGC is
distinguished by its “Advantaged Investing” approach that enables the
firm to source and acquire scalable businesses at attractive multiples
through partnerships with management teams, founders and sponsors who
reinvest alongside HGGC, creating a strong alignment of interests. Over
its history, HGGC has completed more than 100 platform investments,
add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations and liquidity events with an
aggregate transaction value of more than $17 billion. More information
is available at www.hggc.com.